Man accused of trying to run charter bus off road

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Jan 19, 2013 at 12:01 AM

TUSCALOOSA | A Georgia man faces a felony charge after he was accused of trying to run off the interstate a bus transporting the Stillman College women’s basketball team.Nathan Aaron Williams, 21, was charged with making terrorist threats, domestic violence and reckless driving on Wednesday. His girlfriend was a passenger on a charter bus traveling on Interstate 20/59 near the 97-mile marker on Wednesday afternoon, said Capt. Loyd Baker, Tuscaloosa County Metro Homicide Unit commander.“He drove in front of the bus, slammed on the brakes and was trying to run them off the road,” Baker said.State law defines a terrorist threat as an act that “terrorizes” another person, causes the disruption of school activities or causes the evacuation of a building or other serious public inconvenience. Williams, of Hinesville, Ga., was released from the Tuscaloosa County Jail on Wednesday on $19,000 bond.The Lady Tigers defeated Claflin University 68-62 and 58-54 in a double-header in Orangeburg, S.C., on Thursday.